I’m at month 4 after graduating from Codesmith. A few nibbles but no offers yet. I’m told there is a slowdown that will hopefully correct as we move through autumn.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
There are a lot of hiring freezes but there are also a lot of companies hiring. So do t give up and keep chugging. Feel free to ping me if you want a quick two second advice on some companies to apply to
u/BootcampBen wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
There is no “fake LinkedIn company” if you have even 2 brain cells to rub together they make it very obvious that they are an open source project.
That may mot have always been the case, and I’m not say they aren’t pushing into an ethical grey area with calling those projects “
u/michaelnovatireplied·· edited★ FEATURED
I agree with your response that people make their own resumes and each person does what they want to do. But there are many projects that don't disclose this that are brand new. The more mature a project gets, the more obvious it seems to get and I think this is the students decision, not Codesmith telling them to do it.
Out of the newest \~8 projects, these alone don't say a thing about open source affiliation to Codesmith directly (10/17/202 9:18am PST)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/devdux-extension/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/devdux-extension/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/jesterapp/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/jesterapp/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/zurau-kafka/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zurau-kafka/)
This one says "Product developed under tech accelerator OSLabs" which again, you can Google OSLabs, but it sounds like it's a real "product":
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/dacheql/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dacheql/)
Overall though this shouldn't be a concern to attend Codesmith, you spend 11 hours a day doing real work to improve your skills and no one's forcing you to do this, you can do what you want on your resume as Ben pointed out.
EDIT: Without DOXING ANYONE, these are how all of the individuals listed on those pages characterized those companies above:
1 out of 6 says Open Source clearly in their job title, and another 2 out of 6 mention OSLabs fairly buried in the described amongst \~15 bullet points. The other 3 do not mention it all as open source. I don't mean to push hard on this but like the raw data doesn't lie and if people just put in the time and look at these, it's a very large number of people who do this and not a "few bad apples". It doesn't change my opinion on the fact that people can do what they want and no one is forcing you to do anything you don't feel comfortable doing, I'm simply pointing out a pattern and curious where it comes from and why it keeps happening when many people here say that Codesmith never tells you to do this.